On 05/25/2013 01:13 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> El sáb, 25-05-2013 a las 11:54 +0200, Luca Barbato escribió:
>> Hi, since the whole discussion got somehow sidetracked on where and if
>> to install for everybody the rc system specific files for everybody
>> (that should be an implementation detail for the specific dohelper
>> IMHO), I'm back to the other part of it: switching the actual init
>> implementation.
>>
>> # WHY (not just edit your bootloader)
>>
>> Since efi at least some people started to put in the kernel the bootargs
>> and we have at least few new options brewing for init, some are
>> small impact (bootchar, bb-init-openrc and runit-openrc) some are more
>> invasive (runit and systemd).
>
> I use e4rat and, for that, I need to add
> init=/sbin/e4rat-preload
>
> to my grub.conf, I guess this wouldn't change with this, no? :/
mostly you would be able to do
# eselect init addon e4rat
instead.
But the whole eselect init should be an opt-in till we are 100% sure it
covers the usual scenarios.
The basic idea is that you would have a wrapper (shellscript or binary)
that just reads from a known location what to run once and what to run
the following times, something along the lines of
if (switching)
do_switch
else
exec $real_init
With all the possible failovers.
lu
